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If you want to build a lucrative career in Machine Learning and AI, come join us and hear from our speakers. The workshop is designed to give you the solid foundation to kick start your career in Machine Learning & Data Engineering. The workshop will be fully interactive and provide hands-on coding experience using Apache Spark and Databricks Unifiied Analytics Platform. Please note that you will be allowed to attend one of the two workshops listed below.

Workshop Option 1: Data Science Workshop with Apache Spark

Speaker’s Bio

Hien Luu is an engineering manager at LinkedIn and he is a Big Data and Machine Learning enthusiast. He is particularly passionate about the intersection between Big Data and Artificial Intelligence. Teaching is one his passions and he is currently teaching Apache Spark course at UCSC Silicon Valley Extension school. He has given presentations at various conferences like QCon SF, QCon London, Hadoop Summit, JavaOne, ArchSummit and Lucene/Solr Revolution.

Apache Spark is a unified analytics platform and it has become one of the must-know big data technologies due to its speed, ease of use, and versatility. Increasingly, companies are leveraging Apache Spark to build intelligent applications that use Machine Learning techniques. This workshop is designed for Apache Spark beginners to quickly gain hands on experience in working with Apache Spark and it will include focused and interactive hands-on exercises.

This workshop will cover the following topics:

Introduction to Machine Learning

Machine Learning Development Process

Apache Spark Overview

Core concepts in Apache Spark MLlib component

Data exploratory analysis and feature engineering

Develop Machine Learning applications using following algorithms

Classification & Regression

Workshop Option 2: Data Engineering Workshop with Apache Spark

Speaker’s Bio

Ganesh Chand is a data engineer and consultant at Databricks with 10+ years of industry experience. He is particularly passionate about solving world’s toughest data engineering problems using latest and greatest open source technologies such as Apache Spark, Apache Kafka etc. He also runs Kathmandu Apache Spark meetup group and has given numerous presentations on Apache Spark and functional programming using Scala.

Apache Spark is a unified analytics platform and it has become one of the must-know big data technologies due to its speed, ease of use, and versatility.

Traditional ETL tools and Data Warehouse no longer scale to handle today’s analytical needs. This workshop is designed for Apache Spark beginners to quickly gain hands on experience in working with Apache Spark and it will include focused and interactive hands-on exercises.